I've deleted the duplicate posts in the other sub-forums on this. There is no need to plaster this all over the forum and clutter up a bunch of sub-forums with disjointed commentary and duplicate threads.

Thursday: 13 sets of 7 (91 total)
Today: 29 sets of 12 (348 total) + 1 set of 2. I was so close, I wanted 350.
Chin-ups and pull-ups tonight as well but in moderation as I'm beat.
I definitely see gains in muscle, particularly my triceps & shoulders and to a lesser degree my pecs. It'll be interesting to see the final results in muscle composition and exercise endurance by the end of the cycle.

Today: 19 sets of 15 reps (285 total).

Pushed myself to do one more set to make it an even 300.

Time for another update.

As mentioned elsewhere I've gone back to an intermittent fasting feeding schedule; I eat a big meal at some point between 12PM and 3PM and have a smaller, but still filling, meal at dinner time 6PM-8PM. On average I'm getting about 18 hours of fasting in each day with a minimum of 16.
I've found this changed has helped me immensely. I'm much more focused all day and have very little drop to my energy when I eat my big meal. I'm constantly warm as well which is nice (I was getting cold hands as I would get closer to lunchtime before). Lastly my Tinea is getting better again. For a while it was getting worse but it's receding again. My gut feeling is the more frequent meals were impairing digestion which was resulting in the Candida having food (even if it was lean meat).

I had slackened a bit the past week on my exercise routine but hiked for about 5 miles on Saturday and I'm back with a vengeance today.
I jogged a mile and half this morning.
Did some ab exercises.
Began a push-up routine (below).
And had a good round of chin-ups, pull-ups, and dips tonight.
I feel worked over but good. Gonna get lots of sleep and keep the routine up.

Pavel Tsatsouline "Evil Russian" Push-up routine:
WEEK 1

Mon: 100% test, relative intensity (RI) 30% Set frequency (SF) 60 min
Tues: RI 50% SF 60 min
Wed: RI 60% SF 45 min
Thurs: RI 25% SF 60 min
Fri: RI 45% SF 30 min
Sat: RI 40% SF 60 min
Sun: RI 20% SF 90 min

WEEK 2

Mon: 100% test RI 35% SF 45min
Tues: RI 55% SF 20 min
Wed: RI 30% SF 15 min
Thurs: RI 65% SF 60min
Fri: RI 35% SF 45 min
Sat: RI 45% SF 60 min
Sun: RI 25% SF120 min

WEEK 3

Mon: 100% test 

I have my health back. Life is good.

Unless your farmer has been specifically mentioned in rawist circles, I don`t see how the demand for organs can be that great. Puzzling.

He's got stands at two large farmer's markets in NYC as well as the smaller market I frequent. From speaking with him it sounds like at least half of his customers, and probably more than that, ascribe to WAP, primal diets, or paleo diets. He even has others RAF customers in the city.

I would like to feed on some raw brains and see what effects it has

I had a disturbed and fitful sleep with vivid dreams the night I ate them. I also had anxiety the next day which is abnormal for me. Others were not able to corroborate my experiences with similar experiences, as far as I remember, so it would be interesting to hear your experiences.

I read somewhere that constant frequent sexual intercourse means the man becomes less fertile or something .

AFAIK it takes 2 days to build up your optimum levels of sperm so sex daily would result in a lowered fertility rate. Maybe you read something similar?

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I don't think it's the fungus that causes your tinea to flair up. I think it has something to do with fecal matter in the colon.

Take me for example, I have eczema issues and like you I always thought "candida candida candida". If I over eat, and got constipated then things would flare up badly, but if my colon was kept pretty regular I'd be really good. Now I've also done juice fasts where I drank unlimited amount of juice, sugary and pasturized crap.  I also used enemas regularly to make sure my colon was always squeaky clean. But the fruit drinks in theory should make my 'candida' flare up like crazy. But it definitely didn't. My eczema improved drastically and I felt awesome. Now that I'm eating again and I'm slightly constipated my problems resurface big time. So I've come to the conclusion it's more because of old fecal matter not being released when it should, rather than candida.

Perhaps the 'candida' is feasting on stuck fecal matter, but even if so, I still think it's more important to keep your bowel movements regular than avoiding carbs.

That's all well and good but when I overeat I go to the bathroom more often than normal. A normal day for me is once a day but when overeating it's at least twice a day.
I eat RZC because my body can't tolerate carbs; the carbs perpetuate a leaky gut in me which has resulted in an extensive list of true food allergies.

In my experience the following foods do NOT feed candida:
Meat, eggs, fresh coconut meat, coconut oil, organic butter, yams, buckwheat, millet, quinoa, mesquite, maca, raw cacao, medicinal mushrooms such as reishi, berries, all greens (including goitrogens), sweet potatoes, lentils, amaranth, bee pollen, seeds, algaes

FWIW I've bolded the foods in your list that do exacerbate my Candida. Some only exacerbate when eaten in larger amounts (eggs) and some would take a small bit to exacerbate (berries). There are others in the list that may or may not but my food allergies prevented me from experimenting with them once I'd gotten my Candida under enough control that I could accurately gauge things.

Also of note I have Tinea Versicolor which has exhibited a correlation to my internal battle with Candida. When the Candida gets bad the Tinea flares up and when the Candida is under control the Tinea disappears. When I began eating RZC I transitioned into a 1-2 meal a day plan with plenty of intermittent fasting (at least 16 hours a day). The Tinea slowly but surely receded. The past couple months I'd been eating 3 meals a day, with plenty of protein, and the Tinea has gotten noticeably bad. Ive gone back to how I was eating before and things are progressing in the right direction again. To me this indicates that even meat/protein can feed my fungal issues so I need to eat at points where I will utilize it all and not have left overs to feed fungus.

Try to get hold of raw grassfed tongue. It is more easily available and avoids you having to gte hold of raw dairy  - plus, IMO, many types of raw meats are already very fatty such as raw lamb/raw mutton.

It's gotten much hard to get a hold of in my experience Tyler. It might be a less utilized organ in the UK but the growing prevalence of diets like ours here in the US has resulted in increased demand and frequent shortages. The last beef tongue I had I was waiting over month to get. Liver has been gettign much more popular as well.

Even the concord grapes, are a total pain in the ass as far as chewing or swallowing the seeds, although I'm sure its possible some primates spit similar things out.

Have you ever had wild concord grapes KD?
They're actually very easy to eat. They are a bit tougher skinned and do have larger seeds but they're still much easier to eat than many other edibles in the wild.

the longer I'm on raw paleo, the less I "cheat" because the cheating usually results in feeling really bad or off.

I'm the same. At this point cooked foods just make me feel blah so I don't have any desire whatsoever to "cheat".
In my mind any cheating for me are the rare occasions when I indulge in fruits as these exacerbate Candida issues. These are still raw though.
I think it's been maybe 6 months since I ate anything cooked.

I do have to say I'm surprised at the amount of people here on the forum who are indulging in cooked or processed foods and the frequency it seems to occur at. I'm glad we have this thread as it really opens my eyes to the full breadth of others experiences. It's also good as it gives newbies some confidence that even if they indulge here or there so long as they work towards an overall RPD they will make gains in their health.

As most zero carb wannabes I am overly concerned with getting enough fat in my diet. The main concern for me is protein poisoning, rabbit starvation and kidney stones. I can enjoy raw beef fat although can't eat enough of it, since it takes too much time to chew and I wanna get on with other things. I do have beef tallow and I know that it's rendered thus not raw. But I still rather sacrifice quality for time. I got an an idea from this forum to melt the fat as to increase the intake. I did just that. Before I measured the tallow to weight twice as much as raw grass fed beef. I poured the tallow into a glass and drank it along with my meat. I have to admit that the drink was unpalatable. I also took 10 hcl 650 mg pills since I can't digest raw meat. Soon after the meal I was hungry. But unfortunately I knew that I have to fast since I already used up a lot of stomic acid and if I eat more then I would get severe stomachache. So I fasted. I was kind of happy thinking that all is well and that I am finally digesting my raw meat. But the next day I was not feeling too well and had a stomachache. I went to the bathroom and everything came out undigested. I am puzzled. On one hand carbs are problematic for me, on the other fat is not a solution to zero carbing. Perhaps I have to settle for fruit?

I would have the same reaction as you and I've been eating RZC successfully for over a year.
I'm going to make some observations without quantities or photos so these might be wrong:
-You don't have to worry about protein poisoning unless you eat pounds and pounds of meat everyday. A couple pounds of meat isn't going to poison you.
-You will not get rabbit starvation if you get moderate amounts of fat with your meat; the fat on fatty cuts will be enough. You might not have a ton of energy if you don't get enough fat or carbs but you're not going to shut down.
-I'm not going to harp on you about the cooked fat but I will say that I personally cannot tolerate it and do not recommend it.
-There's not much evidence that ZC directly causes kidney stones. IMO a ZC diet is more demanding of water than say a raw omni diet so you should hydrate a bit more but it shouldn't scare you. Lex's experience do seem to correlate with ZC as at least a catalyst but it is one experience.
-You're having too much fat. Twice the weight in tallow (rendered fat so even more potent/concentrated) to ground beef is grossly excessive.